Russian Drone Attacks on Ukraine Capital + Video
ISWNews Analysis Group: This morning, Russian Army attacked positions of the Ukrainian forces in the city of Kyiv with several Shahed-136 suicide drones.
Ukrainian sources reported the sounds of several explosions in Shevchenkivs’kyi district and from the outskirts of Kyiv. In this regard, Vitali Klitschko, mayor of Kyiv and head of the Kyiv City State Administration claimed Ukrainian Army shot down 10 Shahed-136 suicide drones over the city.
The Ukrainian military has also said it shot down 13 Shahed-136 suicide drones over Kyiv and the surrounding region early on Wednesday, But there were no immediate reports of casualties.
Also, some Ukrainian sources claimed that the Russian army also used the Arash suicide drone in this attack. If this claim is true and proven, today’s attack is the first operational use of Arash suicide drones in the war in Ukraine.
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The attack was Russia’s first major drone attack on the capital in weeks. It should be noted that a wave of Russian drone and missile attacks since October has caused severe damage to Ukraine’s energy and electricity infrastructure as it enters the winter.
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Ukraine has already received modern air defence systems from the west and the US, But so far, the interception and shooting down of Shahed-136 drones has not been so successful.
Some believe that the deployment of the US Patriot air defense systems can help; but, the US has previously resisted supplying Ukraine with the Patriot systems. However, the US officials, recently, after the repeated Russian airstrikes on Ukraine stated that the patriot missiles could/may be delivered to Ukraine in a matter of days. But there is still a big doubt about the effectiveness of Patriot system against the Iranian suicide drones. In the past, Iranian drones have managed to pass through Patriot defense systems many times in West Asia.
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